A statement from the Obama campaign hitting back at Romney's whining ...

[Tx4obama]

Romney: Obama 'trying to fool people'

Denver, Colorado (CNN) – Mitt Romney blamed President Barack Obama for mischaracterizing his positions and forcing him to spend more time fund-raising, as the GOP presidential candidate looked to turn around his campaign trajectory and end a difficult week.

--snip-- (many more whiny Romney quotes in the full article)


The Obama campaign quickly fired back a statement.

"It's odd that Mitt Romney, a former CEO, won't take personal responsibility for his campaign's troubles," said campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "And it certainly takes a lot of chutzpah for him–after his campaign bragged that it wouldn't be dictated by fact checkers–to shed crocodile tears over a legitimate discussion of his record and policies."


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/23/romney-obama-trying-to-fool-people/

[oldhippydude]

1. zzzzzzzing n/t

[Cha]

2. There needs to be

a poster with mitt's mug and some big ol crocodile tears!

[central scrutinizer]

3. "forcing him to spend more time fundraising"? WTF

does that even mean?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. He's claiming Obama is saying stuff and that's to blame for his donors disappearing.

Has zero to do with his own big mouth.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. It means he's doing to Obama what he thinks Obama is doing to him. And he has much more money!

It's through the looking glass. And that word I always forget that describes seeing in others what you yourself does.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

24. Projection? n/t

[SleeplessinSoCal]

32. thanks. i'm pretty sure that's what he's doing.

but he's whining that he's spending time raising money to fight back. did nobody explain strategy to him?

i swear most people in DU know more about campaigning than the man from Bain.

[Indpndnt]

4. Snap!

Willard's definitely got chutzpah - and not much of anything else. Now he even needs money.

[pamela]

5. I'd love to see Obama hit Mitt and the repukes hard with the "personal responsibility" meme.

Repukes play the victim card ALL THE TIME. When are they going to take personal responsibility for the mess they got us in? The financial crisis? The wars? When will they stop whining about "the liberal media" every time they say something stupid and the media reports it. They never, ever take responsibility for anything. It's always someone else's fault.

When they ask... "Are you better off now than four years ago..." just once I'd like to see someone ask them "What have you done to help make things better?" Mitt puts his money in the Caymens and spent four years running for President while President Obama spent four years cleaning up the Republicans' messes. His VP choice met with a group on Inauguration Day and plotted to block Obama's efforts to clean up their mess. Personal responsibility, my ass.

[Tumbulu]

9. Excellent points

and I agree with you!

[renate]

15. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes exactly!!!!!

I agree with you.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Every time I run into a Right Winger I demand an apology,...

....not only for that whole "Iraq is the Central Front of the War On Terror" crap but for calling us traitors back then who were working for the terrorists and for their advocating torture.

Wanna really mess with their heads? Tell them the Republicans made a decision back in 2008 that they had lost their "National Security" and the "Good For The Economy" status and actually ANNOUNCED that they were going to fall back on their "cheapskate" reputation despite having spent like drunken sailors when they were in power.

Right Wingers everywhere then started to echo their talking points like good little parrots. I tell them they aren't "leaders", they're followers who can't think for themselves and that's why they never come up with anything original.

[Springslips]

35. Yes! Use their language against them.

I've done this for years and it totally fucks with their cognition. It is as if I have activated their 'republican talking points' synapsis in their brains, but what follows is out of joint. They become speechless.

For instance:

Some meathead spotting about the war on Christmas. I'll say, " Stop crying. This is another example of the culture of victimization that infects our country."

Or.

" I am sick of the attacks on business property rights and their god given freedom to advertise as they see fit guaranteed by our constitution."

If they go off on something a liberal said I'll say, " this is political correctness gone amuck."

I have a million of these. It is a fun game to play.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. On the "War On Christmas" I suggest throwing O'Reilly to the lions.

Then I say, "Assuming they like junk food."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. BTW: Tell them you think Oil Companies have an "entitlement mentality" for their subsities.

[Iris]

29. Well-said. I wish more people were saying this.

It seems so obvious, doesn't it?

[oswaldactedalone]

33. Great post!!

Get this to Obama campaign... just in case they haven't thought of it yet.

[aletier_v]

6. What is going on with Romney?

Every weekend he lets out a serious of disbelievable statements.

This weekend it's "I should be taxed low", investing in our "#1 geopolitical enemy, Russia", asking why airplane windows don't open and the beyond-all-belief "Let them eat Emergency Room care".

What the fuck is going on here?

I've never seen anything like it.

[Tx4obama]

7. When he was younger he was in a bad car accident in France ...

he injured his head badly, I think he might still be suffering from the effects of that accident.

The media should be calling for a through medical exam on his brain - with the results released to the public.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Actually, he died in that crash according to the cop on the scene,....

....and left,....THAT....

[DemKittyNC]

8. Also

Saying he won't let Obama turn America into something bad like California - To a room full of Californians in... where was that place he said that again??? Oh yes, CALIFORNIA!

[Tx4obama]

16. If he thinks California is so bad then why'd he purchase his last multi-million dollar house there?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

19. There are plenty of Californians who don't like what's been happening here.

But it's the same thing that's happening everywhere, except we have more people out of work. We still have the University system though and Silicon Valley. AND Disneyland! And we're starting up some new age speed rail service and more and more renewable energy sources.

AND we still want to protect our very long coastline from Big Oil.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Face it, the Right Wing hates us here in California because we like sex...

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[ohheckyeah]

25. Oh NO he didn't...

did he? He said that to Californians?

[DemKittyNC]

34. Yes my friend he did :)

Well I like to think I summed it up more 'elegantly' hehe, but here is what happened...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10401612

"It's even possible we could be on a pathway to become California. I don't want that to happen either." <-- Actual Romney Quote.

[ohheckyeah]

40. OMG...

he's not really very bright.

Thanks for the info.

[DemKittyNC]

41. You are very welcome :)

[Iris]

30. Yet he'd love to put the tax structure that got CA in such a mess

into place for all of us. wtf?

[Myrina]

36. And CA was fucked by GOP dirty tricks that

Gave us the Governator. Does nobody remember the underhanded energy/utility dealings that resulted in the recall of Gov Gray Davis? Those were CEO's and capitalists who did that shit.

[Beartracks]

10. He really asked why airplane windows don't open??

omfg.

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[tavalon]

11. Hmmm, perhaps he should get the help to show him why..

[Tx4obama]

13. Here's an article excerpt I found ...

-snip-

Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction.

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”

-snip-

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-beverly-hills-fundraiser-20120922,0,2317962.story?track=rss&dlvrit=56325

[NBachers]

12. I sure hope Obama hammers Romney hard every minute of all three debates

I'm not looking for Obama to be the polite gentleman of subtle debating flower

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. What is that word that describes what Romney is doing here . . .

There's a term for when you bash your opponent with lies, and then you accuse the opponent of lying. You believe they're doing the same fishy thing you're doing to them.

What's that word?

Thanks in advance.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. It's "Rovian".

It used to be called "Dickishness" after Nixon.

[ohheckyeah]

26. Projection.

And he is classic at it.

[Tx4obama]

27. Projection

Psychological projection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

[SleeplessinSoCal]

31. projection it is!!!

thanks everyone. I thought of it moments before checking back here. it is exactly what he's doing. plus the whine.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

28. Sleeplessinsocal

See post #24 upthread and be sleepless no more.

[Kteachums]

39. It is the same thing my school children do when I ask them if they did something wrong.

They blame the other person. In this race it seems easy to blame Obama. I get so sick of hearing people blame him for the economy when he has tried. The Republicans have practiced their speeches over and over. Blame Obama for poor leadership. Blame Obama for spending so much money. Blame Obama for the health care problems. It is their only excuse for everything.

[Stuart G]

42. Blame Obama will not work..I honestly believe that...nt